Sombra's P.O.V:
Before she could ask anything else, a white light appeared out of nowhere, and I had to shield my eyes with my hoof. Once it faded, I saw a very angry Twilight Sparkle.
Before I could even do so much as open my mouth to tell her that it wasn't what it looked like, we were both enveloped in magic and teleported to the Canterlot Castle's throne room. I found an empty vase and vomited into it.
Sparkle bowed to Princess Celestia, and Fluttershy did the same. Sighing, I copied them. Celestia motioned for us to rise, and Sparkle began, "Princess Celestia, I've found the pony responsible for getting the whole of Ponyville drunk."
I gulped as the Princess stared at me with a look as hard as stone. Then she coldly said, "Explain yourself, Sombra."
"Heheh," I rubbed the back of my head while laughing nervously. I was in trouble and I knew it. "Could I say that it was an accident?"
"No, you can't. You have to give a proper reason, Sombra," Celestia told me.
"Um..." I thought of how to justify my actions. "Um...Well... Because I wanted everypony to have a good time!" I came up with something.
The Sun Princess narrowed her eyes. "You wanted everypony to have a good time? You. Wanted. Everypony. To. Have. A. Good. Time?!"
I wished my mane was long as Fluttershy's so that I could hide behind it. Because the glare that Celestia was giving me was enough to send me to the sun. I'm not joking. I could have literally evaporated right there and then! "Um...yes?"
I flinched when she asked, "And why would you of all ponies want anypony to have a good time?"
"Because Fluttershy's doing a good job of reforming me?"
Before she could say anything, Fluttershy said, "Um...Princess Celestia?"
Fluttershy's P.O.V:
I noticed how Sombra was looking more and more ready to collapse out of fear, and said, "Um...Princess Celestia?"
"Yes, Fluttershy?" the Princess asked.
"Sombra isn't lying," I said. "He's nearly reformed...and I'm sure he had good intentions..."
The Princess raised her eyebrow. "But how is giving anypony a hangover to deal with good?"
"Um...I don't know?" I hid behind my mane.
"Exactly," she said. "For getting a whole town drunk, your punishment is to... I'll leave it to Fluttershy to decide it. Now you both may leave."
We bowed and left.
I was pacing around my cottage. Princess Celestia decided that I should be the one to decide Sombra's punishment?!
Punishing ponies were not my thing. I might punish them too hard... While I was pacing, Sombra was sitting patiently, waiting for me to say something. I had told him that he didn't have to sit there, but he said he wanted to.
Think, Fluttershy, think! I could punish Sombra by grounding him like a foal... But would that be too much? "Um, Sombra?" I asked.
"Yes?" he looked up from his hooves.
"Um...your p-punishment is to stay here and not leave the cottage for a whole day..." I added quietly, "If that's okay with you."
"Isn't one day too less?" he asked. "Punishments are supposed to make the pony regret whatever they did, so that they would never do it again..." he trailed off.
"...Then a week?" I asked.
"Still too less," he told me.
Why was he being so... not against it?! It's like he was happy to be punished! I gave a frustrated growl and thought of the longest time possible. "Six months?!" I blurted out.
He smirked. "That shall be...enough."
I sighed in relief and then decided to give Angel some more carrots.
Sombra's P.O.V:
I managed to convince the pegasus to go to sleep, and since then I've been having a staring contest with the bunny. "Ha! I win! You blinked!"
He seemed to nod in defeat, not bothered to have lost. I looked over to Fluttershy, she was sleeping peacefully, causing me to smile. It looked so adorable.
I could not help but sigh quietly. She was the first pony in years to actually care for me and I…care for her, I guess. She was a kind, sweet mare, and beautiful too. I wonder how she is still single with that beauty.
The stallions in this town should be fighting just so that they could have her! But they weren't. They were probably too stupid.
In the long run, I guess all this trouble was worth it. Getting defeated, imprisoned, going through a reformation process, and getting a whole town drunk- everything. Every single thing.
But was it true love? And how could I admit it? And the most important question of all...did she love me? I hope she did...
Fluttershy kind of reminded me of... her. They had many things in common. Both were kind, and beautiful, and underappreciated.
The ponies around her never knew how much she meant to them until it was too late. Only after she was...gone, they realized what they had lost.
And that had been the darkest day. The most miserable one. I remember, on the day of her funeral, there hadn't been a single pony smiling.
Each had felt the same sorrow, and had tears pouring down their faces. Even the mare who was the happiest one, she was crying more than anypony.
But the only one who had been deeply affected by her death was me. I had been the saddest, with my heart shattered. I remembered when the doctor had pulled me aside to inform me of what had caused her death, I had been so angry.
I had never felt that angry in my life. So much rage. And when I had told the Princess, she had just said she'd stop it. But no, she never did.
More and more ponies were being killed each day. Soon there was a funeral every day or the other. And that's when my eyes opened for the first time.
The Princess couldn't protect the Empire any longer. She was weak. And I knew that I had to do something. I had to stop the monster before any more ponies died.
And that's exactly what I did.